Paul is a guitar hero, to me anyhow. What a cool interview, thanks for posting! The Rock & Roll Trio is still the best rockabilly band ever. Thanks to dan4456 for the confirmation.
Got to meet him in Cleveland when he was touring with the Sun Rhythm Section in 1991. NICEST guy you'd ever want to meet. What a sound they had that night.. Sonny Burgess tore it up.
If you want to see and hear the original rock guitarist that played the distortion licks on the Trio's classics .(covered by this many groups).Search-Paul Burlison..Go down to-Rock and Roll Trio-Part Three..second song.(yr 2000 with DJ Fontana and the Burnette cousins).then go to the original cut in 1956..Johnny Burnette..Train Kept Rollin
Heard the legend of his sound? So it goes that one output tube in his amp was always coming loose, but he liked the sound, so he just left it that way. True?
Vintage Guitar magazine had an extended interview with Paul Burlison (Paul Burlison - Train Keeps Rollin' - by Baker Rorick) where he describes that The Johnny Burnette Trio (at an uncertain earlier date) had a Philadelphia concert performance with the The Four Aces. While Burlison was carrying his amp to the stage he accidentally dropped it which caused a tube to come loose. The Johnny Burnette Trio's performance went on despite the distortion, but his band mates were infuriated after the concert. As soon as the tube was reseated, it fixed the issue. Burlison later described the concert incident to producer Owen Bradley, who requested to get that sound again, which is heard on 'The Train Kept A-Rollin’ and 'Honey Hush' I hope you can find the article. Burlison doesn't seem like he'd want to take credit (or blame) if Grady Martin was responsible for this pioneering guitar distortion.
Hi Joey, yes the story is true. I managed Paul for the last ten years of his life so I got to hear the real story which is when they played in NYC the first time the union would not let them unload the gear. The guys set Paul's amp down too hard and one of the slipped outa bit and as the shows were all live then, they started playing and the fuzz tone came out. When they recorded the next day all three of them wanted to keep the sound.
Paul is a guitar hero, to me anyhow. What a cool interview, thanks for posting! The Rock & Roll Trio is still the best rockabilly band ever. Thanks to dan4456 for the confirmation.
Got to meet him in Cleveland when he was touring with the Sun Rhythm Section in 1991. NICEST guy you'd ever want to meet. What a sound they had that night.. Sonny Burgess tore it up.
I wish I had known this great man with his guitar and his magic fingers, extraordinary quality.
Um dos mais enigmáticos guitarrista,.único no estilo. maneco - Brasil.
If you want to see and hear the original rock guitarist that played the distortion licks on the Trio's classics .(covered by this many groups).Search-Paul Burlison..Go down to-Rock and Roll Trio-Part Three..second song.(yr 2000 with DJ Fontana and the Burnette cousins).then go to the original cut in 1956..Johnny Burnette..Train Kept Rollin
Sound is WAY too low!
Heard the legend of his sound? So it goes that one output tube in his amp was always coming loose, but he liked the sound, so he just left it that way. True?
Vintage Guitar magazine had an extended interview with Paul Burlison (Paul Burlison - Train Keeps Rollin' - by Baker Rorick) where he describes that The Johnny Burnette Trio (at an uncertain earlier date) had a Philadelphia concert performance with the The Four Aces. While Burlison was carrying his amp to the stage he accidentally dropped it which caused a tube to come loose. The Johnny Burnette Trio's performance went on despite the distortion, but his band mates were infuriated after the concert. As soon as the tube was reseated, it fixed the issue. Burlison later described the concert incident to producer Owen Bradley, who requested to get that sound again, which is heard on 'The Train Kept A-Rollin’ and 'Honey Hush'
I hope you can find the article. Burlison doesn't seem like he'd want to take credit (or blame) if Grady Martin was responsible for this pioneering guitar distortion.
Hi Joey, yes the story is true. I managed Paul for the last ten years of his life so I got to hear the real story which is when they played in NYC the first time the union would not let them unload the gear. The guys set Paul's amp down too hard and one of the slipped outa bit and as the shows were all live then, they started playing and the fuzz tone came out. When they recorded the next day all three of them wanted to keep the sound.
same story is told about rocket 88 pretty much